“Be sure.” Every person in Eleanor West’s Home For Wayward Children has their own backstory of the fairytale world they stepped into, and their own reason for desperately wanting to go back. In Seanan McGuire’s latest novella in her Wayward
Middle-aged Halla has just inherited her great-uncle’s entire fortune, and now she has to seek legal help to defend her inheritance from her in-laws, who are contesting the will. And if you don’t think that’s enough peril to set a fantasy story around, then you haven’t met Halla’s in-laws. Deciding that suicide is the least-worst
“I’m not accusing anyone, I’m trying to show you that we don’t even know what we don’t know.” Award-winning author Catherynne Valente gets to play in the Mass Effect sandbox with the latest novel in the Andromeda series. This installment is something of a buddy cop/murder mystery/sci-fi disaster movie. In space. The Quarian ark Keelah
Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality? Stephen King’s latest work is more of a modern-day fable than a novel. It’s also a
2018 was a year that produced a staggering number of excellent books. Some of them were by my usual favorite authors, and some were by authors I only recently discovered. The good news is that I always had plenty to choose from whenever I needed something new to read. The bad news is that there
…gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. For my final book review of the year, I decided to go with the winner of the Goodreads choice for Best Fantasy
Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots. Chuck Palahniuk was one of the guests at this year’s NC Comicon: Bull City, so I was able to buy a copy of his latest novel Adjustment Day for him to sign. Which he did so, with his unique combination
Hey, you know what, basing an entire system of social, political and economic control on the vague, all-too-easily misinterpreted words of a single person claiming divine inspiration is probably not actually all that smart, now, is it.” In the second book of John Scalzi’s Interdependency series, the vital link between interstellar systems – The Flow
“You’re not telling me everything.” “No, I am not.” “Why?” She stood by the window; sprinkles beat the pane. “Because I’m still afraid. And you should be too.” “Of what?” “Of what happens,” Mrs. Sinnard said, “when your uncle is around.” On February 8, 2004, in the mysterious research facility known as Limetown, three hundred